ABSTRACT
Charles gave the scholarly community at Naples the stability it needed. On 24 October 1266 he reissued its privileges. Whether Charles’s promotions of physicians marked the beginnings of a faculty of medicine at Naples or were simply an extension of the royal household medical team remains unclear. The medical school at Salerno, already in serious decline before 1266, received lesser benefits. Sicily had always provided a centre through which Arabic medical learning might infiltrate the west. Marino da Caramanico then ran through the various powers attributed to the emperor in Roman law, including that of protecting himself by lese-majeste, demonstrating that each of these was properly exercised by the king of Sicily. The value to the Angevin kings of Marino’s political theory lay in the justification it provided for keeping intact much of the legislative work of Frederick II while yet highlighting 1266 as a watershed in the political life of the Regno.
